NRMCA Celebrates 100 Years of Ready Mixed Concrete in the U.S.

NRMCA's celebration of the 100th anniversary of ready mixed concrete in the U.S. begins its submissions for October with more Producer and Associate member profiles - see below for their respective Web site links. This week's industry milestone: The American Concrete Pavement Association was founded in 1964.

Hilltop Basic Resources, Inc. - Hilltop Basic Resources, Inc. was founded in Cincinnati in 1941 by I.W. and Katherine D. Steele as a building materials and ready mixed concrete supplier. In 1949, Hilltop expanded into the Dayton, OH, market; during the 1950's Hilltop became the largest ready mixed concrete producer in the state of Ohio with 14 plants. Read more.

An NRMCA Producer member since 1948

Terex Roadbuilding - In 1933, what was to eventually become Terex Corporation began its existence as the Euclid Company. Its success designing and building haul trucks later attracted the attention of General Motors, which purchased Euclid in 1953. GM’s Euclid Division developed and sold large equipment including over half the nation’s off-highway dump trucks. GM coined the Terex name in 1970 from the Latin words "terra" (earth) and "rex" (king). In 2002, Advance Mixer puts Terex in the concrete mixer business. Read more.